Procedure: minutes read

Minutes of the last sederunt read.

Procedure: draft act for treaty with England; motion for delay approved

The draft of an act and commission for a treaty with England, read and moved that a first reading be marked thereon.

Motion presented by [James Douglas], duke of Hamilton, that the parliament proceed to the necessary acts for regulating our trade, the rectification of our present constitution and the limitations, in the terms of the first resolve, and, after reasoning and debate upon the act and motion, it was put to the vote, proceed to consider the act for a treaty or proceed to consider limitations, and carried limitations.

Procedure: adjournment

Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until Thursday next at 10 o'clock.